16/03/2023
| Operational,
Risk reduction
| National
The Wellington Community Risk Management team recently visited the Chatham Islands to support and assist Chatham Islands Volunteer Brigade in delivering community readiness-focused Home Fire Safety Visits..
15/03/2023
| Operational
| National
Tauranga Fire Station has recently received a new Hose Layer fire appliance which is specially designed with rapid hose laying facilities to be used at large incidents that need a lot of water.
14/03/2023
| Operational,
Safety, Health & Wellbeing
| National
Register for an online education webinar: Early trauma care - keeping it simple.
08/03/2023
| Operational,
Event
| National
A group of teenage girls had an introduction to fire, emergency, and disaster management skills this week at National Training Centre in Rotorua.
27/02/2023
| Operational
| National
Whangārei, Washdyke, and Rotorua Brigades have each received a brand new Incident Support Vehicle (ISV) which is used to carry bulk equipment to incidents.
24/02/2023
| Operational,
Safety, Health & Wellbeing
| Te Ūpoko (previously Region 3),
National
COVID-19 has been identified within the community and emergency response personnel in the Hawke’s Bay following the impacts of ex-tropical Cyclone Gabrielle.
20/02/2023
| Operational
| National
We have started work to review the Memorandum of Understanding we have with St John.
13/02/2023
| Operational,
ICT/Technology
| National
If you usually use fireinfounit@fireandemergency.nz or fireinfo@fireandemergency.nz to communicate with the Fire Information Unit, please delete them from your email address book and use the new email address: rcg@fireandemergency.nz
10/02/2023
| Operational,
Emergency management
| National
Kia ora koutou,
I’d like to update you on our contribution to the international response efforts currently underway in Türkiye and Syria after the devastating 7. 8 magnitude earthquake on 6 February 2023.
07/02/2023
| Operational
| National
A team of three is heading off to Australia to evaluate the decontamination techniques, equipment, and technologies used over there and assess what will work best for Fire and Emergency.